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[–] [email protected] 113 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The film industry is dead and streaming killed it. Pirate movies over a vpn as much as you want.

Movie studios are now just landlords. They’re run by boards of directors, focused on nothing but number go up. They want money for sitting like a dragon on top of a stockpile of content. Fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Same with animation.

[–] papalonian 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When you say the industry is dead, what exactly do you mean? Like working in the industry is no longer a viable career option, or you think that movies/ shows in general aren't going to be good anymore?

I'm not trying to argue your point of it's coming across that way, just not sure exactly what you are saying, I have been loving some recent movies and shows so if something is going to change I will be sad

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

No new movies and TV shows are being made. I’m a 43 year old industry veteran, forced to look for a new career.

Anecdotally, I used to make $120k/year for the past 10 years like clockwork. The past two years, though: I made $18,00 and $22,000.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-07-11/production-activity-report-hollywood

This article says 40% but that’s in LA. In other places, production is down 90%.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Uploading receipts associated with your art process, such as progress pictures and files associated with the art program you used to draw the pictures. Not only does this quell accusations of AI being used, it also serves as a means of proving that you are the creator of the artwork.

[–] Valmond 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I made a sub lemmy.mindoki.com/c/aip Art In Progress if anyone would be interested, or maybe you know if a lemmy sub like that that is being more active?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Cool! 😃 Do you accept digital art also?

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

On-prem still has its uses
Platter harddrives are still useful
Tapes and tapedrives aren't obsolete

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Oh god my story. Okay so I was building out a video transcoding service for a company. We all know video transcoding is hella expensive. So I'm using kubernetes to help manage scale, and we're on the cloud. I warn them hey, cloud is hella expensive, this is going to be... a lot. Well what do you recommend? Glad you asked, and I pitched that we have 3 heavy server nodes sitting either in a rack if we want it official, or even we were small enough we could just have them in the office. They would be VPN'd into the cluster, members of the cluster, and those get the priority. If a transcode job comes in use those nodes, only spin up cloud nodes if the scale is too high. I quoted about 20k for 3 beefy performant machines for the node.

Executives balked at the price. Way too much money, what a ridiculous idea anyway, we're a cloud company.

Two months into the cloud only solution they were averaging 12 grand just on CPU compute! Why is it so high?! That's ridiculous!

Absolute fuckers, the morons. I swear I've seen so many companies hemorrhage money because they refuse to listen to legit experts in the field. You fuckers, I was trying to save you money, but no your MBA and accounting degrees taught you how to run fucking cloud operations.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hate that it's so hard to get these people to agree to capex. My current company runs a few datacenters, and we have some teams that use them for their base load. It saves a shitload of money! Like, I don't get why this is a concept that MBAs reject. You don't have to go all in on capex for your infrastructure, just find a nice mix of capex/opex. If you're afraid that you won't use the shit you bought later on, then you should probably make sure that the market is there for whatever you're selling before you dive in headfirst.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We spent several hundreds of thousands of dollars last year doing geophysical processing in azure. But it was an emergency: It was a hot fix to avoid losing out on hundred times that amount. Turned out the contract negotiator never bothered telling operations that they agreed to deliver the data with some processing already applied.

We considered building a processing cluster on site, but buying the necessary hardware and shipping it halfway around the world in a timely manner would've been even more costly. Plus I would be the one who had to build the rig, and I was all tied up on a different project a few countries over at that time.

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[–] gmtom 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're not archiving old data on tapes and shipping them off to a converted bomb shelter, you're not doing it right.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

That is literally what we do at my job.
Three copies: One for the client who paid for it, one for us (internal processing and testing only), and one as a backup goes to a storage location that is a converted cold war era bomb shelter.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The influences of capital on academia have been disastrous.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's why I write my PhD in all lower case.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I'll go first:

Matte black shower sets and kitchen faucets are the shit now. I've installed so many of these during the past year.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Got my bathroom redone last year. Guess which color, lol.

Faucet, sink, tub, shitter, and shower head are all matte black.

To my defense the floor is dark grey and the walls are medium grey. I don't want it to look like a cheap "fancy" hotel with the white/black contrast I see everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Mind sharing a picture of your new bathroom? Matte black toilet seat is something I've yet to encounter.

Just installed a golden shower though. I'll never forgive myself for not seeing the joke there before my gf of all people pointed it out.

[–] Num10ck 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the fact that she thinks of it means shes game.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I used to think white wall and floor are just too basic, but having stayed in my friend's almost-all-black studio apartment made me appreciate how easy it is in white/bright-themed bathroom to see any impending cockroach before it crawls on any of my limbs :(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Haha! We've been scouring the discount bin at the local hardware stores for faucetry (is that a word?). By now most of our stuff is matte black because that's all that gets returned.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Most people are unaware that Google can and has closed accounts without notice or appeal.

A closed account means all your files, photos, passwords, 2fa, are gone.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It means all of those if you rely on google for those.

Never have a central point of failure, and have backups.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Like this father who got his account closed because he took a picture of his toddler penis to send to their pediatrician.

The picture was automatically backed up in Google photo and flagged as child pornography.

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[–] Rhynoplaz 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

College students fucking LOVE blow-up bounce houses.

[–] WoodScientist 63 points 2 months ago (3 children)

As a business investment, what is the long-term outlook for the bouncy house industry? I assume it has its ups and downs.

[–] Rhynoplaz 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So far, it seems to be benefitting from recent inflation, but I wouldn't want to be around when that bubble pops.

[–] Nefara 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There have been downturns in the industry before, but it always seems to bounce back.

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[–] Num10ck 30 points 2 months ago (4 children)

i chatted for 45 minutes with the ceo of a bounce house mfg with 2000 employees about 5 months ago. they had moved all of their production to china, and then china started making foreign executives afraid to visit because they might not he allowed to leave. they wanted to move mfg out of china to vietnam but the chinese govt wouldnt let them take their own equipment out. they considered some bribes but hd no guarantee it would he enough. they realized they should write off the equipment and purchase a whole new set but the lead time was like 3+ years and from china. so they likely couldnt mfg any new jumpies for years and would have to make everyone just patch repair instead.

[–] WoodScientist 15 points 2 months ago

Wow. Real industry info. I was just going for the pun! Thanks for sharing.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (2 children)

75% of people working shifts around or inside an aircraft are alcoholics. Never before or at work, but days off are a shit show.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Social workers are all recommended to have a personal therapist for themselves. And its possible for the personal therapist to also have social work degree

[–] Rhynoplaz 54 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My ex was a social worker, and I completely agree, but I'm not sure how they are expected to afford therapy.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

We like to leave Easter Eggs everywhere. Everywhere. Fully aware they may never be noticed.

[–] Rhynoplaz 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Your industry must be film, video games, or holiday mascot.

[–] roofuskit 13 points 2 months ago

Clearly works for the Easter bunny. Duh.

[–] HurlingDurling 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Well loosely speaking it describes both my two "hobbies" (photography and cryptography) as well as my occupation (highlight archivist, a media gig that's basically to good deeds what criminal records are to crime).

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I have a habit of writing messages on the floor tile before gluing a toilet seat on top of it.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

No one currently makes shine-through ASA (or any SA variant) profile keycaps, partly due to the fact that current trends for mid-to-high end keyboards favor south-facing LEDs; the theory (I guess) being that since south facing is pointed toward your face instead of away from it, it’s better. But HOW is it better if there are no key caps for them to shine through?! Front-printed caps are gaining in popularity, but so far I have only seen them in OEM or Cherry profile. OEM is tolerable, but I don’t want to spend money on something mediocre, and I cant stand stubby little cherries. I see zero reason why we could not have SA profile caps with the shine through legends (the letters and symbols) on the “Bottom” of the keys, or even the front frankly. I am not the only one looking for a product like this.

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[–] Jimmyeatsausage 21 points 2 months ago

Your insurance company isn't just fucking you with premiums, they also expect the guys that come and fix things up after a disaster to lose money doing it, 0 overhead, 0 profit

[–] IMongoose 18 points 2 months ago

Feds are loosening up Eagle take and to a lesser extent peregrine take for falconry in the US.

Golden eagles used to be illegal for falconers to take from the wild until a few years ago, now there is a lottery to take problem eagles off of ranches. They used to issue permits for ranchers to shoot them, and wind turbines to hit them, but wouldn't let falconers take them as hunting partners which was very silly. It's loosening up a bit now which is good. Less dead eagles this way.

Most states have a lottery system to take peregrines already but their population is thriving. I can see states getting rid of the lottery in the next few years. The 50 or so birds taken by falconers each year across the US would be a rounding error to their population anyway.

[–] 2ugly2live 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Since covid, the insurance industry has been hemorrhaging people. At my company, most people that 3-4 months before they quit. No one knows what they're doing because of this and many claims are denied/mishandled.

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[–] Monster96 15 points 2 months ago (11 children)

There's a lot of buzz going around the UFO community about something BIG coming. I've been hearing people talk about 2027 a lot.

[–] OldManBOMBIN 50 points 2 months ago

For what it's worth, I've been hearing about something BIG coming for 37 years.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Not sure if this is everywhere but I’ve been a software developer for two years almost and I was shocked that when some presses delete on anything we just toggle Archived to true. All hooks that get data exclude archived by default but we can pass a flag to get those too.

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[–] cr0n1c 11 points 2 months ago

I'm a birder. Lots of birds were named after people...Scott's Oriole for example. You may think a guy named Scott discovered the bird, but nope, just a friend of the guy that did. Scott wasn't a good guy according to history (re: killing native Americans), so there's a big committee that's going to rename a ton of birds that have eponymous names. The birding community is very split on the topic and it's interesting to see the drama.

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